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The first question relates to today’s date, April 12th, and the answer begins with the letter ‘V. The remaining questions are not date-related but follow the ‘V’ theme.

Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961.
Image Wikimedia Commons

One

What ‘V’ was the spaceflight that carried the first human into space on this day in 1961?


The following questions are not date-related but continue with the ‘V’ theme.

Two

What ‘V’, an island country in Melanesia, is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,090 miles (1,750 km) east of northern Australia?


Three

What ‘V’ is missing from the following statement about a relative and mentor of Britain’s King Charles III?

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten was a British statesman, naval leader, and the last … of India.

— Encyclopædia Britannica


Four

What ‘V’ was the Russian-born author of the 1955 novel Lolita, which relates Humbert Humbert’s obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze?

Five

What ’V’, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is an alien race who arrive at the Earth to destroy it to make way for an intergalactic bypass?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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